The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ALL CAPS NO BREAKS Edition

Illustrations by Derek Erdman

Published by Infinite Self-Esteem, Paperback

#93 / 500 + Supplemental Punctuation Guide*

2021

*The first 250 copies came with a numbered supplemental punctuation guide printed on 80# glossy cover. 

Like New. The book is clean, covers attached, uncreased spine, secure binding, crisp inner pages, unmarked, no writing, no highlighting, no stains, no fading, no ripped pages, no edge chipping, no corner folds, no crease marks, no remainder marks, not ex-library. Very faint to indiscernible signs of wear from use, storage and handling.

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From the Artist:

"As everyone knows, Fitzgerald was very fond of capital letters.
That’s why his first name was F. If you want to read a timeless
work of literature, this is certainly one way you could do it."

Reviews:

"An excruciating treatise on the early 20th century made even more
excruciating by somebody’s genius choice in typography." -  H. Owings, Atlanta GA

"Erdman has updated Fitzgerald's famed work as to
discover a newfound relevance in the age of social media.
His reimagining retains the spirit of the book, a reinvention
of the text, more easily digestible in 140 characters, allowing
the reader to discover what might have remained buried
gold in the original." -  A. Gorseth, Seattle WA

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Derek Erdman was born in Ohio and went to Kent State University for English, but dropped out to work at a copy shop. While at the copy shop (& making zines on 3rd shift at Kinko's in Kent, Ohio) he fell in love with clip art, especially by  Tom Tierney, and the 90s zine called  Crap Hound. Erdman moved to Chicago and worked at record stores, eventually owning one in Hyde Park that is  still there today  (it's still covered in the signs he painted). While there he started making paintings of clip art-like images on squares (that looked like record covers, tbh), eventually selling the store to paint full time, mostly "for the people" simple and affordable paintings. Erdman eventually moved to Seattle to work at an "alternative weekly"  called  the Stranger, and eventually at the record label  Sub Pop, all the while still painting. Soon after he realized that he hated the constant drizzle and weird social dynamic of the Pacific Northwest and moved back to Chicago.

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The Great Gatsby  is a 1925  novel  by American writer  F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the  Jazz Age  on  Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts  first-person  narrator  Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire  Jay Gatsby  and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover,  Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with  socialite  Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's  North Shore  in 1922. Following a move to the  French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor  Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter  Francis Cugat's dust jacket art, named  Celestial Eyes, greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated its imagery into the novel.

After its publication by  Scribner's  in April 1925,  The Great Gatsby  received generally favorable reviews, though some literary critics believed it did not equal Fitzgerald's previous efforts. Compared to his earlier novels,  This Side of Paradise  (1920) and  The Beautiful and Damned  (1922), the novel was a commercial disappointment. It sold fewer than 20,000 copies by October, and Fitzgerald's hopes of a monetary windfall from the novel were unrealized. When the author died in 1940, he believed himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. During  World War II, the novel experienced an abrupt surge in popularity when the  Council on Books in Wartime  distributed free copies to American soldiers serving overseas. This new-found popularity launched a critical and scholarly re-examination, and the work soon became a core part of most American high school curricula and a part of American popular culture. Numerous stage and film adaptations followed in the subsequent decades. Gatsby  continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. Scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of  social class,  inherited  versus  self-made wealth,  gender,  race, and  environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the  American Dream.  The Great Gatsby  is widely considered to be a literary  masterpiece  and a contender for the title of the  Great American Novel.